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I'm Tiffany Reese, and this is Something Was Wrong.

Music was wrong. 20 months. And this is my story. Most times when people

meet me, they go, whoa, why do you have so much energy? I used to joke that I just eat my weaties,

but I actually was born that way, just very exuberant and excited. In most pictures with me and other

kids, I'm the one with my mouth wide open, smiling in a wonder.

Part of it is ADHD, but another it is my mom's exuberant spirit.

She just had that, like, fire in her.

She raised me until I was five and a half when she passed away from cancer,

and I got a lot of my personality from her.

She was just a lot of joy and a lot of fun. Everybody remembered her as being jovial and organized at the same time. I wish she

would have lived a little longer so I could get that organization part. So sorry for your loss.

That had to be so incredibly hard. What was your relationship like with your dad growing up?

I loved my dad and I think he's a good person. We had a lot of good inside jokes and stuff

growing up, but he was very easy to anger and paranoid about a lot of things that made him

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